[ruby-core:18090] Re: Suggestion to change Time#to_s format to an official standard

Dirkjan Bussink wrote:
> Hello people,
>
> When working with the JSON gem today, I found an annoyance. It 
> currently uses Time#to_s to create a JSON representation of a Time 
> object. The problem with this is that not every browser apparently 
> handles this format.
>
> Because of this, I started to dig into it and found that Ruby's format 
> of Time#to_s doesn't adhere to any official standard. It looks like 
> UNIX date output for some locales and also has a resemblance to 
> RFC2822, but the location of the year differs.
>
> Is there any reason that Time#to_s doesn't adhere to any standard? It 
> would probably make the output easier to parse, for example for 
> browsers, but I think it would be better overall to use a standard here.
>
> Another related topic is DateTime#to_s. Is the output difference on 
> purpose here? Or has it never been given any thought?
>
> I hope some people here could shed some light on this.

FYI, Ruby 1.9 uses different format.
2008-08-03 06:16:10 +0900